Patents by Inventor Gunter Bofinger

Gunter Bofinger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5243943
    Abstract: A distributor-type fuel injection pump is provided with a hydraulic injection adjusting mechanism whose injection adjusting piston adjusts the cam gear unit for driving the pump plunger to execute strokes corresponding to the desired position of the start of injection. The injection adjusting piston defines a control space on one side and a spring space receiving a return spring on the other side. The control space is connected via a throttle bore with the pump interior space which is filled with fuel by a delivery pump. The fuel pressure is adjusted by a pressure control valve. To prevent unstable pressure vibrations on the injection adjusting piston, which leads to defects in the operation of the fuel injection pump, the spring space is connected on one side with the suction side of the delivery pump via a first throttle and on the other side with the pressure side of the delivery pump via a second throttle having a smaller throttle cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Bofinger, Heinz Nothdurft, Karl-Friedrich Russeler, Josef Hain, Hubertus Zedler, Manfred Narr-Hess, Remy Schmitt
  • Patent number: 4975030
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines comprising a pump plunger displaceable in a pump cylinder for delivering fuel to a plurality of injection locations, and elements for controlling fuel injection quantity. The controlling elements include a relief channel in the pump plunger for communicating a pump working space defined by the pump plunger with a relief chamber, an outlet port on an outer surface of the pump plunger for communicating the relief channel with the relief chamber, at least two connecting cross-sections of different shape for communicating the relief chamber with the outer port, and a slide valve displaceable along the outer surface of the plunger and having a control edge for controlling flow of fuel through the connecting cross-sections during a delivery stroke of the pump plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Bofinger, Claus Maier, Gerhard Reichan
  • Patent number: 4615317
    Abstract: An rpm governor for internal combustion engines having two cooperating levers pivotable about a shaft and engaged at one end by at least one governor spring and, counter to this force, by at least one rpm signal transducer is proposed. An idling spring engages one of the two levers, and its other end is adjustably disposed in the governor housing. As a result, a very fine idling adjustment is attainable, independently of the conventional governor springs, and so a "hole" in the engine torque during a transition from overrunning to loaded operation is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Bofinger, Claus Maier
  • Patent number: 4430974
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for an internal combustion engine is proposed having an adjustment piston for the adjustment of the onset of the injection, on which an rpm-proportional fuel pressure determined by a pressure control valve and a pressure valve placed behind it and controllable in dependence on temperature acts. An adjustment device controls a full load stop for the limitation of the full-load fuel maximally injected by the fuel injection pump. The adjustment device has a movable piston for this purpose disposed movably in a work bore. The circumference of the piston is formed as a cam and is scanned by a scanner determining the position of the full load stop. The movable piston is acted on one side by the fuel pressure in the suction chamber and on the other side by a spring and by the fuel pressure between the pressure control valve and the pressure valve. This results in a compensation of the fuel pressure force at the movable piston, which is caused by the pressure valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Bofinger, Werner Faupel
  • Patent number: 4065236
    Abstract: The pump piston in a fuel injection pump is provided with longitudinal grooves which provide communication between the pressure chamber and the fuel supply chamber. An annular groove on the pump piston connects the longitudinal grooves so that communication between the pressure chamber and the fuel supply chamber is interrupted only after onset of the axial pressure stroke regardless of prior piston rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Hofer, Gunter Bofinger, Heinz Nothdurft, Mohammad-Ali Khosrawi, Helmut Simon, Karl Konrath